Yeah it's about time Apple allowed those of us who have different ID's for both iTunes Store and iCloud to merge them so it effectively turns it into one account.
Very informative however still doesn't help what most of us have been wanting to do for years. The point some of us used an old email address many years ago to sign up for iTunes. And now even after all these years you cannot assign a new email to the iTunes account without losing all the music or anything else. How about a work around for just that
If I understand the process correctly , changing the email address does NOT change your AppleID. Yes - this is very confusing. You have an AppleID "xxx@hotmail.com" with an email "yyy@gmail.com".
Much better is to create your AppleID and also the free iCloud email that matches exactly. On the new ID, enable Family Sharing and link your old ID.
You asked for a work around - this is exactly what you asked for.
Actually there is an easier way, call Apple and tell them you need to change it but first set up all the two step authentication so Apple can verify who you are and they will change it. I had this done since I had different emails for iTunes and iCloud and Apple online community and I wanted them the same when they combine all this stuff. Apple took care of it and now I have one of with one email account.
Awesome advice. I'm losing my work email and as thst was my only email I started with Apple I was dreading the consequences of a misstep.
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